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I have been married for 20 years and have two children (ages: 16 & 19). I am no longer able to tolerate the emotional and mental abuse that my husband dishes out on a regular basis, because he is getting louder and more physical with each outburst (he has not hit me, but will strike the wall near my head). He has had affairs in the past, drinks, smokes pot and gambles, yet he is able to support our family financially due to his family’s business.
I have been a homemaker all these years and don’t have a job outside of the work I do at home for my husband’s family’s business (of which, he made me set up my work as a separate small business, because he said that it would be to costly for his family’s business to have me as an employee).
I have tried to talk to him about a divorce; this angers him to no end and he tells me that I will suffer greatly if I do this to him. I am afraid. Not just of his growing anger, but of not being able to make it financially on my own. I have no college degree and no skills. My husband clears a little over $800.00 a week; I have no money of my own and don’t know how to come up with legal fees.
Would you please tell me what I should expect when I find the courage to follow through, find an attorney and file for divorce?
I have been a homemaker all these years and don’t have a job outside of the work I do at home for my husband’s family’s business (of which, he made me set up my work as a separate small business, because he said that it would be to costly for his family’s business to have me as an employee).
I have tried to talk to him about a divorce; this angers him to no end and he tells me that I will suffer greatly if I do this to him. I am afraid. Not just of his growing anger, but of not being able to make it financially on my own. I have no college degree and no skills. My husband clears a little over $800.00 a week; I have no money of my own and don’t know how to come up with legal fees.
Would you please tell me what I should expect when I find the courage to follow through, find an attorney and file for divorce?